University of Virginia Library

Raisonovsky To Lecture
On Future Of Soviet Russia

Alexander Raisonovsky

He Will Speak On Russian Culture

The Department of History at the
University will sponsor a talk by Alexander
Raisonovsky on the future of the
soviet in the Graduate Lounge on the
West Range, Wednesday November 4 at
8:00 PM.

Mr. Raisonovsky is a professor of
History and Chairman of the Undergraduate
Department at the University of
Pennsylvania. The delivery to be given
Wednesday will be the final of a tour of
visits to Virginia universities.

A fellow of the Ford and Danforth Foundations,
Mr. Raisonovsky will spend the first week
in November discussing Soviet culture with
Virginia students and will be sponsored by the
History Club and the Department of History.

The speech will be titled "Russian and
Soviet Visions of the Future." Mr. Raisonovsky
spoke to Sweetbriar students on the topic of
"Soviet Students" and will speak Wednesday
morning at Mary Washington College on the
"Mongol-Tartar Impact on Russia."

Mr. Raisonovsky has been teaching at the
University of Pennsylvania since 1959. He
received his Ph.D at Stanford and his Bachelor
of Literature at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar.